Part III of Benjamin Tucker’s Instead of a Book (on Land and Rent) is now available in full posted by Rad Geek 09 Oct 2007 11:56 pm
Part III of Benjamin Tucker’s Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy to Write One, on Land and Rent, is now available in full in the Fair Use Repository’s online edition. This adds the following new transcribed essays.
There are a series of articles setting out basic principles and defending the occupancy-and-use standard for land ownership, including discussions with Edgeworth
and Auberon Herbert:
The Land for the People
- Basic Principles of Economics: Rent
- Rent: Parting Words
- Property Under Anarchism
Next come a series of discussions on Henry George‘s theories on land tenure and the single tax:
- Mere Land No Saviour for Labor
- Henry George’s
Secondary Factors
- The State Socialists and Henry George
- Liberty and the George Theory
Followed by a long debate with the correspondent Egoist,
on the abolition of the State and the merits of Georgist theory:
- A Criticism that Does Not Apply
- Land Occupancy and its Conditions
- Competitive Protection
- Protection, and its Relation to Rent
- Liberty and Land
- Rent, and its Collection by Force
Then an exchange with Stephen T. Byington, later a major translator of anarchist works into English, on whether a free market will eliminate economic rent; if so, how; and if not, whether Georgist confiscation of rent is permissible. Tucker makes clear that the notion of liberty that he defends is intimately connected with a defense of private property:
And two short articles in which Tucker argues that Georgist land-tax schemes would result in homesteaders being unjustly evicted from their homes due to increasing population in their neighborhood:
Finally, a collection of short remarks from the On Picket Duty columns of Liberty, focusing almost entirely on debates with Henry George:
October 10th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
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